Hey, this is set two weeks after the series one finale (1x13,) so it has some spoilers for that. I hope you like it.
It had been two weeks since Rhydian had left with his Mum and younger Brother and still only the Smith's, Tom and Shannon know the real truth.
The Vaughans weren't quite saw what happened to him and Kay; Kara; Katrina; Jimi; Sam and Liam remembered Brin and the story about him being a new foster placement to which the Vaughans had never heard about. So they assumed that either Rhydian had been kidnapped by this young boy and whoever else had been with him or that Rhydian had run away.
The police had given it forty eight hours before setting up some in town searches and questionings for him for twenty four hours before moving to search outside of the town and still there had been no sight of him, not that Maddy had been expecting them to find him now that he was with Ceri.
Even at school it had been different since Rhydian left. Jimi (who was just starting to treat Rhydian as a friend) had asked once if they had found him, to which Maddy's answer could only be a no. Of course the three K's had asked, but then they would.
Bernie had filled Maddy in on the events that had happened in his cafe and Maddy did her best not to chip in with other things that Bernie didn't know that would put a little bit more sense into his story.
Tom and Shannon were both missing Rhydian especially Tom who had finally managed to get him into football and late night DVD marathons at his when his Mum was working the late shifts at the hospital.
Shannon missed how he could understand her so easily and would talk to her when someone had put her down especially about her 'beast' and to some extent she missed the vegan chocolate that he shared with her whenever he had some.
Maddy missed having another wolfblood of her age to talk to and share adventures with.
Even her parents were now regretting making such a harsh decision so quickly and all of the Smiths decided that Rhydian would most likely have stayed and let Ceri and Bryn go if they hadn't been so quick to push him away, because really it wasn't his fault. Maddy seconded this when she reminded them that Rhydian really didn't want to live the rest of his life in a cave, that he did get slightly claustrophobic - which he had been trying to learn to combat while in their pack - and that he had been (for once in his life of different care home after care home: different people after different people) he was finally happy here.
The day of the Dark Moon day had passed a few days ago and Maddy once again had the energy to be running through the woods to school.
She had already informed Shannon and Tom of the Full Moon day (although it was more of a full moon night) and the Dark Moon day and the effects that they had on a wolfblood after their first transformation and the pair had understood that quite easily and had agreed to help Maddy to keep her secret from everyone else.
Today's day at school had been boring so far and everyone was waiting for lunch time, however before that they had to endure an hours worth of PE. They were playing football at the moment as they had just finished doing netball last week, which Shannon and Maddy were disappointed about more than anyone else in their class, but Tom was happy now that they were playing his favourite sport.
Maddy and Shannon ended up on Tom and Jimi's team, which wasn't overall to bad as they could have been put in a team separately. Jimi had become a lot nicer to them after Rhydian had joined the football team and talked to them quite a bit more as of late. She had been surprised when he had enquired about Rhydian, let alone hold a full on conversation with them with it not being a complete joke or stupid prank of his, Liam and Sam's.
Tom and Jimi had just managed to score a goal for there team when Maddy saw something move out of the corner of her eyes. Her wolf scenses were kicking in and Maddy began to wonder if it was a wild wolf blood.
Shannon had noticed this and tapped her arm to bring her back to the football game that they were currently playing. Maddy and Shannon cheered for the goal that their team had scored, however Maddy hadn't put her heart into it.
Suddenly something caught her eye as it ran out of the trees and to the edge of the school grounds. Maddy looked at the figure: recognising it all to easily.
"Rhydian!" Maddy called as she ran over to her friend. Shannon looked at Tom and Tom looked back at Shannon, before they too ran over to join Maddy at Rhydian's side.
Jimi followed as well as most of their class, but Maddy wasn't really focusing on them at this moment in time.
Rhydian had climbed back onto his feet by the time that everyone else joined him and Maddy - having been too shocked and excited to see him - hadn't quite noticed the state that he was in.
There were leaves in his hair, mud on his shoes and his clothes were covered in dirt. Maddy gave a little smile and raised a hand to pull the leaves out of his hair. Rhydian flinched away from her touch slightly, but she continued until she took her hand away and saw red.
Shannon and Tom were stood either side of her and noticed this as well and looked up at Rhydian in confusion forgetting all of the cheery hellos and welcome backs that they had thought of for the minute.
"Rhydian are you-" Maddy began to ask although she was cut off by Rhydian falling forward when his knees buckled. Tom was quick enough to move forward and grab Rhydian before he hit the ground. Maddy and Shannon kneeled down beside them.
"Get help!" Maddy shouted desperately to the others who had gathered around behind them and a few of them ran towards the school and a few to their teacher.
An ambulance and three paramedics arrived a little while later and took Rhydian from Tom and looked him over quickly before covering him with a blanket and moving him out of the way to do many other things that Maddy didn't pay attention to. Instead she ran over to the paramedic who followed behind the other two.
"Excuse me," She started, "Will he be alright?"
"You'll have to wait until he's at the hospital to know all of that for sure," She told her before noticing Maddy's slightly downtrodden look, "What's your name? We'll get them to ring you."
"Maddy Smith." She replied as the paramedic gave a nod of her head and walked over towards the ambulance. Maddy had barely noticed Tom and Shannon come over to stand beside her and place a hand on her shoulder.
So as Rhydian was taken away in the ambulance, all Maddy could do was wait and hope.
Okay, sorry that's it's short, but I hope to make the second chapter longer. I hope you all had a good Christmas and a Happy New year and thanks for reading.
